You might think that’s an image from a clever video game or rendering engine, but you would be wrong. It’s actually an HDR photograph of downtown Tokyo, and over at Geekiz magazine they have a great collection of 80 such images.
Randall Hand
Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.
Once it’s tonemapped, it’s no longer HDR, but LDR.
Some are great. Some are so over-processed that they really hurt your retina.